Retro:Game Shows/Cleveland TV Guide

[chris319]

On Saturday evenings before prime time both 'Match Game PM' and the 'The 25,000 Pyramid' came on.

Boy, there's a relic from a bygone era: game shows in prime access on Saturday night. Memories of watching Tattletales and Match Game PM from 7:00 to 8:00 pm ...

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 13 2004, 12:48 AM\']

On Saturday evenings before prime time both 'Match Game PM' and the 'The 25,000 Pyramid' came on.

Boy, there's a relic from a bygone era: game shows in prime access on Saturday night. Memories of watching Tattletales and Match Game PM from 7:00 to 8:00 pm ...

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It's not quite the same thing, but there are some stations that still air WOF and J! reruns on Saturday back-to-back, no? WABC did at one time, but don't anymore IIRC. WPVI in Philly never had either one in reruns, and WPXI in Pittsburgh had the duo on Saturday for part of the 90s.

[Ian Wallis]

From some of my TV Guides, Don is definitely right - 7 (Washington's ABC) also aired "Gambit" and "Tattletales" as well....

Along those same lines, I have 9 (Washington's CBS) not showing TPiR on their schedule as late as at least 1980....

Another odd one:  the ABC station in Charleston, South Carolina ran "Tattletales" every day at 4 p.m. in 1977.

[zachhoran]

Another odd one:  the ABC station in Charleston, South Carolina ran "Tattletales" every day at 4 p.m. in 1977.

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No more odd than WMGM-TV Channel 40 in Atlantic City area(NBC) running an hour of ABC daytime programming for half of the 80s. THis allowed those who had the station to see ABC game shows of the period that WPVI Channel 6 in Philly never bothered to air(last two years of Dawson Feud, Trivia Trap, All-Star Blitz, Hot Streak, Double Talk, and Bargain Hunters). WMGM stopped airing ABC programming by the time of MG90, however.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 13 2004, 07:17 AM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Oct 13 2004, 12:48 AM\']

On Saturday evenings before prime time both 'Match Game PM' and the 'The 25,000 Pyramid' came on.

Boy, there's a relic from a bygone era: game shows in prime access on Saturday night. Memories of watching Tattletales and Match Game PM from 7:00 to 8:00 pm ...

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It's not quite the same thing, but there are some stations that still air WOF and J! reruns on Saturday back-to-back, no? WABC did at one time, but don't anymore IIRC. WPVI in Philly never had either one in reruns, and WPXI in Pittsburgh had the duo on Saturday for part of the 90s.

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It's not the same, but WVEC in Norfolk still airs the two shows, during the 7-8 pm slot. Sometimes, it's pre-empted if ABC College Football goes longer than expected.

[ChuckNet]

Channel 11 from Hamilton, ON, which was an indie with lots of game shows.

During the early 90s, they aired TPiR, Cosby's YBYL, and reruns of Super Pay Cards (which Ch. 11 had on in said capacity for about 10 yrs after its cancellation).

BTW, their calls were originally CHCH, but changed to ONTV a few yrs back...would this make Ch. 11 the only Canadian station whose calls don't begin w/C?

Chuck Donegan (The Curious "Chuckie Baby")

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Oct 13 2004, 08:18 PM\']

Channel 11 from Hamilton, ON, which was an indie with lots of game shows.

During the early 90s, they aired TPiR, Cosby's YBYL, and reruns of Super Pay Cards (which Ch. 11 had on in said capacity for about 10 yrs after its cancellation).

BTW, their calls were originally CHCH, but changed to ONTV a few yrs back...would this make Ch. 11 the only Canadian station whose calls don't begin w/C?

Chuck Donegan (The Curious "Chuckie Baby")

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ONTV was just an on-air identifier; the calls remained CHCH, and still are today even though the station now refers to itself as simply "CH."  It's no different from "The New VR," "The New PL" and "The New VI" -- they still have calls of CKVR, CFPL and CIVI respectively.

[Ian Wallis]

BTW, their calls were originally CHCH, but changed to ONTV a few yrs back...would this make Ch. 11 the only Canadian station whose calls don't begin w/C?

There's a station in Vancouver known as BCTV.  That's how its listed in TVGuide, and I believe that's how they identify themselves on air.  It's Channel 8, affiliated with the CTV network, however it's actual calls are CHAN.

[ChuckNet]

ONTV was just an on-air identifier; the calls remained CHCH, and still are today even though the station now refers to itself as simply "CH." It's no different from "The New VR," "The New PL" and "The New VI" -- they still have calls of CKVR, CFPL and CIVI respectively.

I knew you people near the Canuck border had a purpose. :-) Thanks for the clarification!

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Oct 14 2004, 09:39 AM\']There's a station in Vancouver known as BCTV.  That's how its listed in TVGuide, and I believe that's how they identify themselves on air.  It's Channel 8, affiliated with the CTV network, however it's actual calls are CHAN.

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According to this page, CHAN is now affiliated with Global... did another channel pick up the "BCTV" name?

[rugrats1]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Oct 14 2004, 09:34 PM\']According to this page, CHAN is now affiliated with Global... did another channel pick up the "BCTV" name?
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No -- while BCTV is now called Global, it is still using the BCTV name for their news program, "BCTV News on Global".  This, of course, is to keep Vancouver's CTV outlet, CIVT ch.32, from stealing it, especially since it has "CTV" in it. As a result, "VTV" (as CIVT was once known) became "BC CTV", before switching to just "CTV".